Where is the beef?

Over Thanksgiving some of us discussed food prices, nutrition and coupons.

One mom makes stock with chicken bones
(after the chicken/turkey is de-boned and cut up into meal size packages and frozen)
The bones are cooked in a stock pot with all of the onion peels and scraps, carrot scraps, celery scraps.
Broth is then frozen in ice cube trays to add as needed to dishes.
For quick consumption she adds a handful of noodles/rice, the remaining meat off the cooked bones and (be creative) some mushrooms? leeks? and voila you have a healthy meal.

Saute Cabbage with Tomato Paste, onions, garlic and Sardines, lots of black pepper and for me lots of cayenne pepper, and this is great over hot toasted bread or dumplings (which I make the dumplings homemade too with only flour, water and a little baking powder, then fry)...either way the sardines with cabbage dish is very tasty, healthy and economical

(we posted other very delicious meals on this blog over the years. just type in the label for your search)


Let me know what you think.